BEED: NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday released the party's first list of five candidates, including senior leader Dhananjay Munde, for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections.

Pawar made the announcement at a meeting of NCP workers in Beed district, the party said on Twitter.

The NCP has fielded Dhananjay Munde, who is at present leader of opposition in the state Legislative Council, from Beed's Parli Assembly seat, setting up his possible clash with a cousin and state minister Pankaja Munde yet again.

Pankaja Munde defeated her cousin in the 2014 Assembly polls from Parli by 25,895 votes.